This is a blog for Texas State students taking FCS 4347 (Family Policy) to be able to post their weekly reading assignment (3 newspaper articles about issues or policies that effect individuals and families) and to write their reactions, opinions and implications of the articles.

4.Importance/effect on families/individuals: This article concerns
women in the state of Texas because the new laws are very strict and many
clinics have been shutdown by the government, therefore women have very limited
options when facing a situation involving abortion.

My input: In
this article, a suit against the new abortion laws in the state of Texas is
discussed. The Whole Woman’s Health clinic along with other health clinics are
trying to intervene with the new law that Doctors of several clinics around the
state have to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital and abide to new regulations
with abortion induced drugs. These clinics are filing a lawsuit because these
new regulations will affect many women throughout the state, especially women
from lower income families or rural areas because it will be harder to find a
legal established clinic that will be able to help them. In my opinion, the new
law has some ideas to it that are good, but instead of closing down all these
clinics, the government should perhaps fund these clinics and have them in
better conditions for women that live in any area of the state.